Improvement in milk-cans



JOHN O; MILLIGAN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW'YORK.

Letters Patent No, 107,521, dated September 20, 1870.

IMPRQVEMENT 1N MtLK-cANs.

The Sichedule referred to in these Letters Patent and makingv part of the sanne.

l'o all whom, it may concern Beit known that I, J OHN C.MILL1GAN, ot' Brooklyn, in the'county of Kings and State of New York, have invented anew and useful improvement in Milk- Cans; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the artto make and use the same, reference being lhad-to the accompanying drawing forming part of this speeication. y

This in veution relates to improvements in the oonstruction of milk-cans, and consists in the arrangements hereinafter described, having for their object to provide the strongestjan'wit-'h 'the least amount of metal, and the siniplcst"construction.

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of my improved can Figure 2 is 'asection 0f an inner cylinder, to which the breast and the strengthening-hoops are attached; and

Figure 3 is a sectional elevation of the breast' and the hoops.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

I propose to form the breast A, `collar B, and a broad cylindrical hoop, C, together, of one piece of sheet metal, as shown, and attach it to the upper end ofthe plain cylinder D, which is as long as the height ofthe can is to be between the breast and bottom, which is received into the hoop C against the base E of the breast, formed with a horizontal olset at the inside as wide as the thickness of the metal of which the cylinder D is composed, for the purpose of making the internal surfaceasfsinooth and uniform as possible, also, for providing auuion of the surface of the i top of the'cylinder D with the breast when soldered,

which, together w ith the union of the outer surface D with the inner surface -of O, is calculated to makethe can very strong at the base of the breast, where great strength is highly desirable.

The said collar, breast, vand hoop are to be formed in dies in the-usual way of shaping such pieces.

llhe cylinder D is provided with a bottom, Gr, by y* fitting the narrow vertical flange H- in an annular recess at the lower endv of D, as shown, and soldering them together, 'so 4that the outer 'surfaces of the twQ will be even, to admit of ap'plyingthe hoops I K, the

latter of which may have a disk, L, for re-enforcing the bottom G of the cylinder, said disk being either plane or raised toward the center up against the central portion of G.

The hoops may either be wide enough to cover the whole of the surface D, or a part of it,.as [neferrcth` Having thus described my invention,

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The collar, breast, audI hoop C, all formed together ofone piece of sheet metal, all substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with the cylinder D, having the bottom G of the hoop K and disk L, substantially as specified.

The above specification of my invention signed by me this 19th day of August, 1870.

' JNO. G. MILLIGAN.

Witnesses:

GEO. W. MABEE, ALEX. F. Ronnnrs. 

